Monday, June 6, 2016

My Academic Career

Back in the 1980s I taught real estate licensing in night school, for the Continuing Education Department at St. John Fisher College. Maybe I was an adjunct lecturer -- or are there adjunct instructors? So anyhow, last Saturday the mail carrier delivered this package and I opened it without stopping to read the label --

Mysteries!

Who is Deborah Vanderbilt, and does she need Academic Writing for Students in a hurry (it's hard for me to go to the post office), and after 30 years where did the publisher get my address, and why is the zip code wrong, and if they're going to send me free books, why not something interesting?

Title: ProfessorOffice: Basil 109Phone: (585) 385-8193Email: dvanderbilt@sjfc.eduEducation: Ph.D., University of WisconsinDeborah VanderBiltHas made medieval studies exciting to students with courses like “Early English Outlaws” and “The Arthurian Legend.” A scholar of oral tradition, she also teaches Old English and the history of the language. Won Fisher’s “Teaching Excellence Award” in 1999.

About Me

Okay. For starters, I'm 91 now, but I'm not changing the blog title. This is my 6th year of blogging. This being old is interesting. If I start telling you what it's like, understand, I AM NOT WHINING. it's more along the lines of -- I feel like an anthropologist exploring a new world -- Margaret Mead telling you what life is like on New Guinea. (If you're old, you have heard of her. If you aren't, you're welcome here anyhow.)